I'm seeing a growing number of comments along the lines of "you jerk, go die!" (actually, even worse, but you get the idea) If you're posting anonymously (i.e., you're not logged in, even if you do fill in the "name" field), sorry, I'm not going to mark that for public consumption. If you want to tear into somebody's position, by all means, go for it, but it's not closing time at a dive bar here and I'd like to try to keep things somewhat civil. As they say on MetaFilter:
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But at least we know the "Weymouth" anon
By Pete Nice
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 11:46am
is going to be the same "Weymouth" troll for all their posts. It doesn't matter where they live, but they are assigned a random name at least. After a while posters can figure out the sock puppet trolls and start to include/exclude them from discussions.
IP addresses from Boston only?
By anon
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 11:22am
I'm more interested in hearing comments about Boston from people who actually live in Boston. There are certain registered users who don't even live in Boston yet never fail to post daily nasty and judgmental comments about this city and the people who live here. Might be nice if only registered users with Boston IP addresses could post. I'd probably register if that were the case. Just my personal opinion.
People who don't live in Boston and opinions about Boston
By Nancy
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 11:51am
Errr ... what?
Just because I have lived in Cambridge, Brookline and Quincy for my post-college life (20+) years and have worked in the City of Boston for my entire career, I'm not informed enough to have an opinion about it? Should I stop going to restaurants and other businesses in Boston too? Maybe I should stop volunteering at shelters in Boston.
Oh sage anon, please elaborate on what I can and cannot do as a non-resident of Boston.
That's why I said it's just
By anon
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:01pm
That's why I said it's just my personal opinion. No need to be so offended.
I disagree
By CraigInDaVille
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:13pm
While I technically live in a separate municipality (Somerville), I live closer to downtown Boston than a large percentage of official Boston residents do (no, I don't have a citation, just a map and common sense). While I agree that people who live in Chicago/LA/NYC and have never set foot in MA probably aren't the most useful commenters, just remember that this is an overall region and most of the topics discussed have regional implications.
I see your point. It's really
By anon
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:51pm
I see your point. It's really the comments from a few registered users who have identified themselves as suburbanites who take nearly every opportunity to slam pretty much anything and everything about the city of Boston as well as making unfounded bigoted remarks about the people who live here that made me think of the Boston IP address only suggestion. Again, just my personal opinion.
I didn't know
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 4:37pm
I didn't know that Howie Carr had his own login here.
I would hope you would know
By anon
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:56pm
I would hope you would know where you live and the proximity to downtown Boston! Is someone challenging you on that? I wouldn't ask for a citation... that would be other users.
Take a deep breath....
By merlinmurph
Fri, 12/13/2013 - 8:29am
Take a deep breath, take a step back, and think about what you just said.
Think about all the things that are wrong with that statement, both from a technical point of view and a philosophical point of view.
In the interest of civility, I'm done with this comment.
Just wouldn't work
By cybah
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 12:22pm
why? because the way ARIN assigns and tracks IP addresses could change at any given day and are assigned in large blocks not really based on locality.
For example, my cable modem at home (in Chelsea) has an IP address of 24.61.63.144 . If you look on Arin, this is what it says for that class.,.
NetRange 24.60.0.0 - 24.61.255.255
CIDR 24.60.0.0/15
Name NEW-ENGLAND-4
Handle NET-24-60-0-0-2
Parent RW2-NORTHEAST-1 (NET-24-60-0-0-1)
Net Type Reassigned
Origin AS
Customer Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc (C02610694)
Registration Date 2010-10-18
Last Updated 2010-10-18
That's it. No City. No nothing. Would be hard to do it from town.
And that's two class B ranges. Over 2,097,152 IP addresses for Comcast New England.
And just to overcome it, especially with home routers is to just create a new Mac Address, and poof Comcast gives you another IP address.
Also keep in mind many IP addresses are not assigned to a region. For example, I often post/read from my cell phone, which is TMobile. When I look up the IP in Arin, it says the IP is assigned to Seattle, WA, no where close to new england. Same can be said about my work's IP address. it's assigned to New Jersey, even though I am in Boston)
Nice idea, but GeoIP doesn't always work as designed.
PS
By cybah
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 12:26pm
PS - That's NOT my home IP (its pretty close, in the same class B tho..) but just used it to make a point..
It doesn't have to always work though cybah....
By Pete Nice
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 1:11pm
And I understand that it might not work for everyone, but if people can choose a name, and then have the location also show up, it might at least be consistent at some level.
Correct
By cybah
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 1:23pm
However keep in mind firewalls and multiple users from the same IP address.
For example, T-Mobile's APN gateway's address is 208.54.36.190 and 208.54.36.191 . These are the ONLY addresses that show up for any T-Mobile subscriber no matter where they are in the United States. So all.. whatever it is.. 1.2 Million T-Mobile subscribers all come from those two single IP addresses (yes it's one hellva firewall over there).
Sure a name + that IP might help.. but might not.
(Sorry I do computer stuff for a living and my forte is building networks and firewalls. GeoIP just has a lot to be desired)
Anyhow not trying to jab ya Pete, just trying to educate folks on how/why this usually won't work.
topix.com is one of those sites.....
By Pete Nice
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 1:57pm
Test it out and see if your IP location comes out the same each time.
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